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ANTONIUS STANISLAUS NICOLAAS LUDOVICUS ("TOON") DUPUIS (ANTWERP 1877 - THE HAGUE 1937) WAS A PUPIL OF HIS FATHER LOUIS EN STUDIED UNDER THOMAS VINOTTE (1850-1925) AT THE TEKENACADEMIE IN ANTWERP. HE BECAME HEADMASTER AT THE HAAGSE ACADEMIE, WAS A MEMBER OF THE ARTIST'S SOCIETY ARTI ET AMICITIAE IN AMSTERDAM AND RECEIVED MANY AWARDS AMONGST WHICH A GOLD MEDAL FROM QUEEN WILHELMINA IN 1927.
HIS WORK CAN BE FOUND IN SEVERAL MUSEUMS IN THE NETHERLANDS LIKE DE LAKENHAL IN LEIDEN, HET SINGERMUSEUM IN LAREN, DRENTS MUSEUM IN ASSEN AND IN MUSEUM BOYMANS VAN BEUNINGEN IN ROTTERDAM.
THE MONUMENT OF QUEEN MOTHER EMMA IN THE HAGUE, THE MONUMENT OF PROF. F.C. DONDERS IN UTRECHT, THE MONUMENT OF JOHAN AND CORNELIS DE WITT IN DELFT AND THE EQUESTRIAN STATUE OF KING-STADHOLDER WILLIAM III IN BREDA. THE LATTER WAS, LIKE THE GROUP ON OFFER, CAST BY THE FONDERIE NATIONAL DES BRONZES/ANCIENNE FIRME J. PETERMANN IN ST. GILLES-BRUSSELS.
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HIS WORK CAN BE FOUND IN SEVERAL MUSEUMS IN THE NETHERLANDS LIKE DE LAKENHAL IN LEIDEN, HET SINGERMUSEUM IN LAREN, DRENTS MUSEUM IN ASSEN AND IN MUSEUM BOYMANS VAN BEUNINGEN IN ROTTERDAM.
THE MONUMENT OF QUEEN MOTHER EMMA IN THE HAGUE, THE MONUMENT OF PROF. F.C. DONDERS IN UTRECHT, THE MONUMENT OF JOHAN AND CORNELIS DE WITT IN DELFT AND THE EQUESTRIAN STATUE OF KING-STADHOLDER WILLIAM III IN BREDA. THE LATTER WAS, LIKE THE GROUP ON OFFER, CAST BY THE FONDERIE NATIONAL DES BRONZES/ANCIENNE FIRME J. PETERMANN IN ST. GILLES-BRUSSELS.
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